Joe Biden's curbs on chips to China part of broader effort

The US notice to chipmakers could cripple Chinese firms' ability to carry out advanced work like image recognition and hamper Nvidia's business in the country.

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Twitter defiant to laws of the land: Centre tells Karnataka HC

Twitter has challenged the many blocking directions issued to it, including 39 URLs. Twitter in its petition in June had claimed that freedom of speech is affected by the takedown notices of the government. The originators of the content on its platform were not issued noticed before their content was asked to be taken down.

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MobiKwik records Rs 540 crore in revenues in FY22, up 79% from last fiscal

According to MobiKwik’s IPO draft prospectus, the company had recorded an overall revenue of Rs 302.25 crore, for the year ending March 31, 2021. Mobikwik’s IPO was stalled amid a larger correction in fintech valuations.

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UPI transactions hit record 657 crore in August

"With NPCI planning to take UPI to overseas markets, this number is only expected to grow exponentially, as UPI will then become a home-grown alternative to SWIFT," said Jasmin B Gupta, CEO, LXME - India's first neobank for women.

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PEs pick up reins of late-stage tech funding as Tiger, SoftBank go slow

Advent eyes $100m KreditBee round; TPG, Temasek, WestBridge & sovereign funds at play

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Karnataka CM Bommai goes on whirlwind tour of tech suburbs as rain batters city

Technology workers had a tough time on Tuesday navigating the Outer Ring Road (ORR) stretch that is home to about 500 tech companies after knee-deep rainwater choked movement. As a result, many companies declared work from home for their employees

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Meta takes action against 2.7 crore posts on Facebook, Instagram in India

Meta on its own identified 9.98 lakh "Dangerous Organizations and Individuals: Terrorism" related content and finally it took action against 99.8% of the posts were identified.

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